Designing the Holidays
... now is the time many people are feverishly putting together holiday promotions... this month we'll enjoy some idea-starters and cool resources for doing beautiful graphic arts for November and December.
Don't forget, the holiday issue continues in December, with pirzes for your favorite holiday design!
We'll also be opening the holiday downloads gallery one day soon, and you can click here to see our most popular holiday articles
Superb Holiday Ding-bats
Utilize fonts for quick, stylish icons, cartouches, and ornamentation all directly from the keyboard... and these handsome crafted ornaments fonts by the Lanston Foundry guarantee selection, quality of drawing, and even two-color matrixes in
Holiday Ornaments Sets
Old-time Engraving Effect
You asked for it -- a plug-in filter for Photoshop that turns your picture into an ancient engraving, lithograph, pencil sketch, etc. Reader Svetlana Chernousova reviews this wonderful new plug-in from Alpha Plug-ins -- possibly one of the more useful filters you'll find, the
Photoshop Engraver plugin
Gift Idea: Andy Warhol style portraits
In this 9-page, 50-image seminar tutorial, investigate the style of Andy Warhol and how to utilize art methodology and Adobe Photoshop CS2 to simulate Warhol's famouse portrait style for your own projects... the perfect gift is a portrait using Photoshop in the Andy Warhol style
Making Art with Dingbats
With all the cool dingbat and picture fonts available, opportunities abound for quick and easy graphic illustrations. Design & publishing expert David Bergsland walks you through each step in making
Art from Dingbats
Deke McClelland shows how to fix color cast in Photoshop
Using photos in promotions? Taking photos at events and gatherings over the coming weeks? Chances are, you'll encounter the dreaded "color cast" problem. Thanks to Deke, now you'll know how to Fix Color Cast in Photoshop
Celedy Software CeledyDraw 2
Can professional Windows users in the design field exist without Adobe Illustrator? Maybe not... probably not. However, most other Windows users can indeed exist nicely without Adobe Illustrator -- here's a robust, alternative for just about anyone...
CeledyDraw 2
Promote Your Graphic Design Business
Now is a good time to think about promoting your business... special guest, Shaun Crowley, marketing consultant and communications manager for a major UK publishing company launches this two-part article on promoting yourself... PART 1: How to frugally market your business
Going the Extra Mile in Design
Every wondered what it's like to hold a high-powered design position in the cosmetics and fashion industry? Enjoy this intreview by Industry expert and Sessions EDU instructor Laura Schwamb, and get a peek into the life of Lara Modjeski VP of Creative, Tom Ford Beauty
Creating textures and backgrounds
In this tips piece, the gurus at Spiral Graphics share their secrets at generating seamless textures. Even if you don't use Spiral's Genetica software, this information will prove important for anyone who makes textures... 5 Texture Tips: the key ingredients to great textures
& ELSE...
This month's &Else includes: Intellectual Property Rights at risk; B/W Styler for B/W conversion; iView MediaPro 3.1.2; Opendocument Template Competition; DVD Slideshows for Windows; Printools XT for Quark; PhotoProto ; DEVON; Macromedia Flash 8 Courses; Windows Server 2003 cluster; Writing; New Media... and more. The November newsletter for subscribers will be mailed after the 1st of Nov. &Else!
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Photoshop Questions Need Answers
Photoshop 911 has been overwhelmed with questions from readers -- looking for answers! If you are a Photoshop guru, we urge you to stop in and tackle some of the many Photoshop and Photoshop Elements questions from the Photoshop 911 Help Line. Help us Answer Questions from Readers
Previously:
- DTP / Fonts: Designers talk about Type & Fonts in the Fonts Festival
- DTP: Run-in Headlines with David Bergsland
- DTP / Fonts: The Practical Philosophy Of Typography Thinking In Type
- Fonts: New Blackletters fonts from P22
- Design: Designing For Print On A Budget with Thomas McKenna, Sessions.edu
- Photoshop: Alien fixes this photo faux pas enlarge digital photographs
- Web Critique: Art works by Mark Vatnsdal
- Books: New Photoshop books
- Books: Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-one Deke McClelland
- Design: Serious Design Books
- Type: Metroscript font from Michael Doret!
- Design Designing Effective Communications questions about typography
- Font: PowerStation from Alphabet Soup
- DTP / Fonts: 12th Annual Fonts Festival
- Design Greats: Left Handed Designer... Seymour Chwast
- Field Trip: Take a Type Tour with Fred...
- DTP / Fonts: Chris Costello is inspired by Antiquity
- DTP / Fonts: Dingbats and Pic Fonts: People in everyday life
- DTP / Fonts: The Year of the Ornament Font with Gerald Gallo
- DTP / Fonts: P22 up to something good...
- DTP / Fonts: New Typography with David Bergsland
- Design / Fonts: Logo Design Back to the Basics with Dan Antonelli
- Graphic Design: Tips for Patternmakers from Artlandia
- Photoshop: Photoshop Madness crazy Photoshop Users
- Graphic Design: Back to (Design) School
- Field Trip: Looking for Art in all the right places
- Photoshop: MORE Photoshop, Photography & Multimedia books...
- Web: MORE Web Design & Content Management Books
- Photoshop: Photoshop's Ink Outlines Filter
- Graphic Design: Complex Tables in Adobe InDesign
- Photoshop: Realistic, complicated shadows in Photoshop
- Graphic Design: Spiral Binding using Adobe InDesign
- Field Trip: The perfect photo subject
- Reviews: Movie Editing Made Easy... Movie Edit Pro
- 60-Second Window #188 AOL Gone Bad
- Photoshop: Selective Coloring tutorial with Tim Shelbourne
- Photoshop: July Photoshop (PHOTO) Madness
- Graphic Design: Logos: The Apple Core vs. Linear Logic with Maggie Macnab
- MORE: on the next page...
Got Photoshop Questions? Who do you call?
Visit Photoshop 911's blog -- now you can comment on posts, and even lend a helping hand where needed... who do you call?
Photoshop 911 Call Reports
Here comes this month's batch of reports from the Photoshop 911 call line. The most interesting is how one user solves the problem of removing the background from multiple shots of a rotating product for a 3D video... there are seven others, and you'll want to read them all:In the Photoshop 911 FAQ department
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